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IRAN:

August 27, 1941.

Most of Her 15,000,000 People Are Illiterate, But Country Produces Oil

1

Iran (Persia) is the fourth oil-producing Iran used pressure to secure fatter payments Later American oil interests Most of Iran's 15,000,- country in the world: 75,000,000 barrels a year, from the British.

were given concessions, Anglo-Persian developed and exploited the 000 people are Moslems of the Shea sect. The fields, with the British Government öwning a ruler is Mirza Riza Pahlevi, proclaimed Shah in

In 1933 1925. controlling interest in the company.

The Soviet

Stands the

Strain

MONEY-SAVING TRUCKS By Vernon Bartlett

Somewhere across the plains

of Eastern Europe two vast urmies are fighting out the big-

FOR FURTHER PARTICULARS gest battle of history. New

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Stubbs Road

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the com- names appear in muniques. At one moment it sounds as though the German claim to have broken through is. correct, and the next we hear of Phone 27770-0 serious fighting scores, of miles. behind the new front lino. The truth, of course, is that there war in is no front line in a which there is such a discre- pancy between the mobility of If the Russians

Thongkong Eclegraph.infantrymen. tactics they

Wednesday, Aug. 27, 1941.

Wyndham St., Hongkong

Telephone: 20815

THE prefix "special to the Telegraph

to

lined by the Hongkong Telegraph indicate bows which is strictly copyright

under the provisions of the Telecommuni-

cations Ordinance. 1016. Such news as

hears the indication "U" in received in Hongkong on the date of publication by the United Press Associations, who re serve all rights and forbid republications, ellher wholly or to part without previous arrangement.

EVACUATION ISSUES DISILLUSIONED, disappointed and wrathful husbands are preparing themselves for a public war of words on Thursday evening at the

Le

can the

have learnt from the experience of the British and the French- that is to say, if they can keep their nerve while tanks break through and then can close the gap before adequate reinforce- ments and supplies can follow, they can win the war, however much territory they lose in the process.

to have They were believed

One two great weaknesses. feared for their air force and for their communications. At least one of their fighter models hus scored remarkable victories and, so far, their railways have stond. the strain well. Nobody writing from a distance can confidently declare whether the German Luftwaffe is slowly gaining that preponderance which hitherto has decided every campaign in this war.

Peninsula Hotel; the subject is Evacuation; in the pillory will firstly the Evacuation Representation Committee, secondly the Hongkong Government. The mere fact that the Government is likely to be supplant- ed as the Big Bad Wolf is enlighten- ing; can it mean that the polley of But while military verdicts the representation committee has be are thus rash, and unwise, there come even more nebulous than that can be no doubt at all about the Soviet successes in political of the Government regarding eva- cuation? The case for and against warfare. The areas which the Royal Air Force Jays waste night will be Instructive, even if results

after night are those where you yielded therefrom are not especially would rightly expect Hitler's tangible.

campaign against the Soviet Union to cause most resentment

talk

TURKEY

SARABIA

Persian caviar fishermen are seen above with a day's take from the Caspian Sea, where Iran borders southern Russia. Below is a view of the great central plateau of Iran, where nomads raise fine horses for themselves and weave fine rugs for the world markets.

TOTAL Propaganda

selling the TRUTH"

CAN you imagine it? PROPA- whispering, arguing, bribing intelligent guidance, given in- GANDA with the gloves off their way objectively to a given valuable aid in combating dis- савез and commonplace ail- -PROPAGANDA that hits as end.

ments; the man who has helped Yes, in Germany it is total and influenced the choice of a hard as a panzer division-PRO- PAGANDA as a supreme war propaganda-50 per cent. of thousand modern household and weapon which, gives no quarter their war effort and the most personal needs now universally

"dangerous weapon they employ endorsed by common usage, against us, to our enemies.

It is passing strange that this-the _most_violent_local controversy in the there was no area in Germany history of the Colony-should have more angrily Communistic before the war than the Ruhr, remained co aloof from the normal

Three weeks ago the Deutscli- public forum-the newspapers. Cor-

landsender. broadcast a respondence there has been in abun-

attacking the "silly chattering of dance, but the columns of the

cowardly pessimists and grou- means Colony's press, always open for this

sers", which is surely significant and other matters of public interest in a country where there is no and welfare, have been severely freedom of speech, let alone freedom of criticism. On no boycotted by the representation com- mittee in affording the Colony know previous occasion have the com- ledge of Its decisions; two notable muniques of the General Staff in questionnaire Germany been so wide of the examples are (n) #1 was circularised a few months ago mark; they had hitherto differed to members requesting views on from the communiquce of the Luftwaffe in their regard for the evacuation; several aspects of there was nothing secretive about li accuracy. The "destructive bat-

PROPAGANDA which cap-

are professional (or there shouldn't have been) buttle east of Bialystok" had to be questionnaire nor the announced two weeks in succes- neither the

NOT until we give our

propagandista "ready- result of the repiles were given to sign. Never before has the old tures every known weakness,

effort the strength made, properly equipped for a the newspapers; (b) an appeal has been despatched to Lord Moyne, phrase, "according to plan" been every slip of the tongue, every Secretary of State for the Colonies used so frequently or with less failure and failing of the enemy and imagination of the specialist total war of news, their brains requesting a review of the evacua- nbility to convince. Day after and turns it to his disadvantage will we begin to combat his wiles familiar with all the means and tion polley; the public has been kept day the Germans assured in a crescendo of sound that and wickedness; not until the subtleties of propaganda, These in ignorance of the contents.

every human being of every experience and skill of the train- men should be enlisted against Heity force of the age, German to it will the full effect of our propaganda. tongue in every part of the ed publicity mind is harnessed what to-day is the greatest pub- globe shall hear.

own propaganda be felt,

Total all-in propaganda such Propaganda is not merely the as only experts can wield is what husbands.

But if the husbands ard Small wonder that the German

efforts which will frighten the dissemination of news but the we must have. This must not honest with themselves they will admit that up to the present they commentators are reduced to

angry attacks on the Russians lives out of those misguided employment of news objectively, be the distribution of news by a whose have falled to agree on fundamental

Government officials · salesman, issues. This should be one of the for having the impertinence to dupes who retain the slightest It is news in the hands of the carefully controlled number of

"This is hope of an Axis dictated peace.

training for such work is prob- first considerations at Thursday's defend themselves.

There are many who claim the lematic but the carefully plan- is iq boast madness what the Reds are meeting, if the dennite and

andtive purpose.

one broad- AS in many another knowledge to perform these. ned, well-timed use of facts in There must be a a majority agreement doing here," said

fold of wartime "en- functions, but few indeed who a thousand original and lively

This policy of secretiveness can be piclon and serves no useful purpose. The European press has, from the start, maintained highly sympathe tie attitude towards the case of the

very misleading; it cultivates Bus-

they

T

are

that "the fighting power of the

Soviets has been destroyed for ever", but the war in the East

goes on.

our

PROPAGANDA about own and American production

HERE

Opportunities by the thou sand, orthodox and unorthodox,

on what the husbands really want at caster describing the battle for this moment; It may not be so easy | Libau. "Their resistance is deavour, the propaganda effort can attain the brilliance and forms; hammer blows of propa-

In

And the to secure, but until this has been

has neither at home nor abroad high standard so necessary in ganda, in fact, in the hands of vestigated the men will continue to absolutely senseless."

'this great hour of trial; fow who as many publicity men as we Secondly Deutschlandsender, which has so urgue at cross purposes. the disgruntled must endeavour to often scoffed at Mr Churchill's reached as yet 100 per cent. of can give to the ordinary facts can muster.

that evangelical fire which bear in mind all the factors, political and expedient as they exist at the promises of retaliation for the its possibilities,

Only in the Gorman effort makes them significant. present moment, and formulate their bombing of London, is now com- declelons accordingly; emotionalism pelled to complain apologetically if the father of rhetoric, but invert- of the British achievements in could that be claimed, where Our Prime Minister, Mr Chur- oxist to let our own people, our however commonplace the de- facts upon which public opinion ably is intolerant of commonsense; "this unchivalrous method of propaganda has achieved great chill, invests his every utterance, friends and our focs know the

er results than the prodigious tails, with that something which is formed. evacuation issue calls for a cen-

warfare.” siderable amount of

commonsense

Whether the Russians can use of men and materials. Its problems are to be tackled fairly, While the moral oroects of the case hold the Germans, only the their Fifth Column work, which them courage in adversity and told, before we are equipped for

more clear-cut and in are even

than they future will tell. But, quite first weakens the enemy, and carried them on to renewed total war with weapons, but we Really great intuitive can have total propaganda, to- favour of the husbands were a year ago, the same cannot be apart from all the reports of where, in contrast to our own effort. claimed for the practical issues, and unrest in the slave states since few hundred more or less skilled gifts like these are the mark morrow I this is something which

the most vehement husband must take into the castorn campaign began, civil servants, tons of thousands of the greatest leaders of men. Such gifts belong also to the consideration, and upon them, yery Nere is ample evidence, from largely to base his judgment. That he German's own microphones, of trained and properly equip man who has by publicity re- is not the easy course to choose, but of a new uneasiness among the ped operators are profected into duced the cost and cut the toil It is the right one at this particular

every community and country of living, given wartime fooding German people: 'tline.

In

inspires ordinary people, gives We must wait months, we are

Sidney

Garland